Intraprendere la Via Romana al Divino significa iniziare un percorso di risveglio: praticando l'attenzione e la consapevolezza continua ci incamminiamo lungo una strada sapendo che ciò che conta è il cammino per sè più che la destinazione.When you, entering a forest, perceive the beauty of the forest and you feel to be in a complete harmony with it, then, intuitively, you are in peace with the Deities. They are an essential part of our real nature, our Deep Nature, and when we are separated by our real nature we live in the fear. Perceiving such normality means giving a real sense to our lives.

Undertaking the Roman Via to the Deities implies a path to awakening: with the practice of continuing consciousness and awareness we undertake our walking knowing that taking the path is more important than the destination itself.

giovedì 22 ottobre 2015

Grapevine and Wine

The month of October, dedicated to Pomona, is a period full of farming and harvesting activities.This is the reason why Pomona and Vertumnus are the reference of this sacred moment during which the gifts that nature offers us can be harvested. Life itself is a gift that given to us by Nature, destined to return to Nature.

Among
the various agricultural harvesting activities in this period, it must highlighted the grapevine harvestof. I would like therefore to spend few considerations on grapevine and wine, not in botanical or technical terms, but in the symbolic and agricultural meaning (in the most sacred of this term).

The grapevine is a plant "full" of the Dionysius-Bacchos energy: a crown of intertwined vines is a symbol of Dionysus.Its sister plant is the 'ivy.The Grape symbolizes Abundance - in the broadest sense possible: immortality for the Gods and Goddesses, health for mortals.

The grapevine, however, is primarily the "plant of Rhea", the Great Mother,
whose statues are made ​​with grapevine wood. The presence of columns
made ​​of grapevine wood or spiral columns are symbols of the Great
Mother Rhea, generating and feeding Goddess (Alma Mater). To the Great
Mother Rhea are sacred those plants with leaves with five peaks, thus including
the grapevine: these leaves symbolize the "green hand": on each toe, finger or
the leaf, there is a letter, the initial the name of the five Deae Matronae, declinations of the attributes of Rhea.

The vine therefore symbolizes generation, nurturing, the immortality of the
cycles of nature, the feminine energy and force of Nature.Anyone who knows this plant knows how much strength and energy may be contained in the vine.The vine ("Curved Queen") symbolizes the feminine serpentine force, unraveling like a snake around an axis.This relationship is described by the dependence of the vine from the elm (tutor).

Wine
triggers the "orgiastic power," the release of the irrational and the
unconscious, temporary madness, liberation from the bonds of "normality":
these are elements connected to the Dionysian sphere.All
the myths related to Dionysus see the symbolic presence of the vine,
grapes and wine and the whole cycle of the vine and wine in turn
represent the same myth of this God. The cultivation of grapes and wine
production is a divine gift: the wine is not just a drink, but it is a
"living creature", bubbling, fermenting, that "lives even in winter",
symbolizing the blood of Dionysus, in a continuos transformation.Wine is also the blood, the lymph of the Earth's depths: this condition links wine to the underworld of the Dead.

Wine rouses the erotic sphere (Venus): in the botanical geography of the hand, the vine is located at the base of the thumb.

Wine
can become a mean of communication with the Gods and Goddesses both in
oracular - through the delirium caused by drunkenness - and in symbolic terms because
it represents the blood, conveying the generating energy: a gift given to us we must that we must return.For this wine is a central element of libatio as fundamental form of sacrifice.

In the Hortus Arvalis, the vine, plant rich of energy, is located in the flowerbed of Mars.

This blog collects information and my personal reflections about the Traditional Roman Spirituality. In particular here I reflect on the divine manifestations, on the divine energies, rites, worship and cerimonies (strictly linked to Nature) according to the Roman Traditional view within a perspective as modern as possible.

The term "Pagan" was created with a negative and offensive sense. Pagans were in the past those who were still seeking the ancient rites (above all in the countryside - Pagus=village) refusing the new christian religion. Still today this term often is used to indicate anything is immoral, popular, vulgar, idolatrising, etc. On the contrary, at present as in the past, the Pagans are those, on the base of polyteism, by definition in the frontline to defend Mother Nature and the values of tolerance and anything is "plural".

As Cultores at present we have no adequate Temples or sacred sites both for traditional rituals and for meditation, study and meetings. What it could be done to concretely achieve and implement such a project? Have you any idea or suggestion about it?Send an email to:lasesiuvate@gmail.com

Frugality: live in semplicity and sobriety, avoiding excesses and ostentation, being satisfied with you really need

Superiority: never feel inferior or second to anybody in practicing the Via

Humanity: operate for the others' and the community's well being

Usefulness: make your actions useful to others and to the community

Pietas: what is good and bad in a family is evidenced by the descendants' behaviour. Only following the mos maiorum and cultivating Gods/Goddesses we can evidence the best of our family and ancestors and build our Pax Deorum.